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OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
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Cunningham, Roger. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1991
The Zanzibar Ministry of Education instituted an English reading program into all secondary schools in 1989 to raise the levels of English teaching and learning (English being the medium of instruction and testing from secondary level and beyond). The program description and conclusions include implications for program design and implementation.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Educational Priorities Panel, New York, NY. – 1984
This document tracks the 1983 implementation in 11 New York City schools of the Program to Raise Educational Performance (PREP), designed for ninth graders who do not meet high school entrance requirements. Under the program, students may enter high school, take credit courses, and also receive special support and theme-related remedial reading…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Evaluation Methods, Grade 9, High Schools
Tompkins, Leroy J. – 1981
This report presents both formative and summative data regarding the implementation and effectiveness of the Basic Skills Program carried out in the Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools in 1981. The program provides intensive remedial instruction in the basic skills areas of reading, writing, and mathematics to elementary (through grade 8)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Mathematics Skills, Parent Attitudes
Harris, Kenneth A.; And Others – 1982
Summary profiles of Detroit, Michigan, public high schools for the period 1975-1981 are presented in this report which is based on the results of a criteria-based monitoring project to determine the success of court-ordered school desegregation programs in Detroit. Included in the report are: (1) a description of project organization, project…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Codes of Ethics, Community Involvement
Biester, Thomas W.; And Others – 1983
This report presents the results of a New Jersey school district field test of a comprehensive administrator training program. The program's main objectives were to develop a knowledge-utilization approach to the improvement of instruction and student achievement in basic skills, and to develop and test strategies for installing and disseminating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Board of Education Role